Collar supporter



Sept. 13, 1932. w, WILSON 1,876,814

COLLAR SUPPORTER Filed Jan. 4, 1952 Patented Sept. 13, 1932 UNl'lED STATES-PATENT OFFICE EDWARD W. WILSON, OF NASH'UA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ABSIGNOR T0 NABHUL BUBB- HOLD OOMPANY OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, A CORPORATION OF NEW HAMP- SHIRE Application Med January 4, 1982. Serial No. 584,888.

My present invention relates to supporters for preserving the shape of the collar portions of new or laundered shirts.

The device of the present invention is particularly applicable to that type of shirt wherein the collars are attached thereto as a permanent part thereof.

In the stacking or piling of shirts of this type, the collars are frequently subjected to crushing and other distortion which tends to destroy the neatness of the collar and hence of the shirt. This is true whether the shirts are new, and stacked as sold in retail stores, or whether the shirts are laundered after wearing.

Furthermore, the wing portions of these permanently attached collars, particularly where little or no starch is utilized, have a tendency to curl upwardly at the points, and shift sidewise.

An important object of the present invention, therefore, resides in the provision of a supporter which will maintain the collar in its finished shape and condition, and which will simultaneously retain the flaps of said collar in flattened or normal position.

I eifect this desirable result by means of a substantially V-shaped blank adapted to fit under the front portion of a shirt collar and against the. crease between the neck portion and collar, and by providing, on said blank, means such as wings, adapted to roject over or overlap the flaps or wings of the collar.

7 The blank being constructed of relatively stiff cardboard, and the wings being formed in said blank as an integral part thereof and normally on the same plane as the balance of said blank, said wings, on being spread or slightly bent from normal position, will tend to resume such normal position.

Therefore, when the blank has been applied under the collar of a shirt, and the wings have been bent to overlap the flaps of said collar, the tendency of said wings to return to their normal position will result in an elfectual maintenance of the collar flaps in their normal position.

My present novel device is extremely economical to manufacture, requiring but a single blanking action, and being so constructed and shaped as to cause substantially no waste when the same are cut from sheet material.

My novel collar supporter is also easy to apply, and can be rapidly inserted in the collar portion of a shirt with substantially no waste of time by the operator.

I believe that the collar supporter above briefly described is novel, and have therefore claimed the same briefly in this application.

Other features of my present invention reside in the particular construction of my novel supporter, and the above and other features of the invention, details and advantages, will be hereinafter more fully pointed out, described and claimed.

Referring to the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a folded shirt with my novel supporter in position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the supporter illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a supporter having a modified type of flap retention wing; and

Fig. 4 illustrates another variation of said wings.

Referring now to the drawing, for a particular description of the invention, 1 illustrates a shirt folded in conventional form,

whether new or laundered, having a conventional permanently attached collar 2 provided with the flaring flaps 3. 4 designates my novel blank, consisting of the angularly arranged arms 5 which form a substantially V- shaped upper edge 6 adapted to be positioned in the crease between the neck-band 7 and the collar 2. Lines of cut 8 are projected inwardly from the lowenedges 9 of the blank, forming the wings 10.

The blank 4 is preferably constructed of cardboard or other relatively stiff material which will. yet permit the bending or flexing of the Wings 10 upwardly from the body of the blank 4. This upward flexing of the wings 10 permits the insertion of the blank 4 under the collar 2, while the wings 10 ride over the flaps 3 of the collar 2. Immediately u on releasing of the wings 10, said wings will tend to resume their normal position, forcing the flaps 3 toward the bosom portion of the shirt 1, and insuring maintenance of said flaps 3 in normal position overcomin an tendency on the part of the aps 3 to our or bend upwardly.

The su porter 4 is removed by simply grasping t e lower tip 11 and pulling the same from beneath the collar2.

As illustrated in Fig. 3, the blank 12 has wings 13 cut therein in a slightl different manner, and in Fig. 4 the blank 14 is provided with elongated wings 15, the wings 13 and 15, as clearly illustrated, bein located wholly within the body of the blan and the entire outer edge of the blank presenting an uncut edge or surface. I

The method of application of the blanks 12 and 14 is substantially the same as for the blank 4, simply requiring a slight upward pressure upon the Wings 13v and 15 from beneath the blank while the same is being pushed or slid to the inserted position as illustrated in Fig. 1.

It will be appreciated that the showing of the shirt 1 is for illustrative urposes only and that my invention is equa ly applicable to shirts and collars of different sizes, styles,

' shapes and designs with equal facility.

While I have necessarily described my present invention somewhat in detail, it will be appreciated that I may vary the size, shape 30 and arrangement of arts within reasonably wide limits, without eparting from the spirit of the invention.

M invention is further described and defined in the form of claims as follows 1. A collar supporter of the kind described, comprisin a blank of sheet material of substantially %/-shape to fit under the front portion of' a collar and against the neck-band of a shirt, said blank having slits forming win to overlie the flaps of said collar to hold the same in normal position.

2. A collar supporter of the kind described, comprising a blank of inherently resilient sheet material of substantiall V-shape to fit under the front portion of a collar and against the neck-band of a shirt, and wings integral with said blank and dis osed normally in the plane thereof to be de ected outwar ly to overlie the flaps of said collar to hold the same in normal position.

3. A collar supporter of the kind described, comprisin a blank of sheet material of substantially ii-shape to fit under the front portion of a collar and against the neck-band of a shirt, and a air of wings connected at their inner ends witii said blank and extending relatively outwardly to overlie the flaps of said collar to hold the same in normal position.

4. A collar supporter of the kind described, comprising a blank of sheet material of substantially V-shape to fit under the front portion of a collar and against the neck-band of a shirt, said blank having slits terminating inwardly of the edges of the blank and forming wings to overlie the flaps of said collar. 

